06/11/2021 10:12 AM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 06/11/2021 10:17 AM
For the former head of Banco Nación, Carlos Melconian, the strong inflow of foreign currency generated by the rise in the price of soybeans in recent months and the capital increase of the International Monetary Fund prevented an explosion of the Argentine economy in the midst of the pandemic by the coronavirus.
"Without the holy soy, this would fly through the air," he said.
“What prevented an exchange and financial explosion in Argentina?
The holy soybean.
If the holy soy or the gift of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) from the IMF did not come, this would fly through the air, "
said the economist, who also assured that" it is not politics, nor slogan, nor desire to make a mess.
This is so".
In an interview with the journalist Maximiliano Montenegro on YouTube, Melconian also reflected on the Government's negotiation with the IMF to refinance the US $ 45,000 million loan that the organization granted to the Government of Mauricio Macri in 2018.
“The IMF knows that the $ 50 billion is unpayable and he has to find a way out of this, "he
said.
"This is not an agreement that will excite, it is an agreement not to be a world pariah," he warned when talking about a possible agreement with the Fund.
And he added:
"You make an agreement with the Fund and then what is going to come
."
In this sense, he continued, "Argentina has to find the formula to grow again.
The crisis has been in progress since 2011.
Not growing in economic terms is being in crisis."
"Crisis is an economy that does not grow," he
said, and continued: "Argentina has to find the formula to grow again and that is to find the formula to become attractive for investment again. If that does not start, you will not have a chance for nothing. "
And, for the economist, "this government does not have any plan on that."
At the political level, Melconian assured that "the owner of the decisions is politics", but that this administration sees them "
very far from understanding all this. I see them very far from issues of common sense
, the same one used by the right wing, the left and the center in the rest of the world. "
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